Author: Edward Noble

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-13

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9781331323754

Excerpt from The Grain Carriers A ship crept over the sea, silent, beautiful; a picture in silver-point coming up the grey slope from the under-world - a picture on which the stars peeped down. She moved there slowly, carrying in her hold grain for the people who live and fight and strive in our dim cities; people who have never seen her kind, who have no knowledge of her; people who clamour for bread, who would die if she did not bring it to them; whose rulers care nothing for the processes by which it comes, who are concerned only with the fact that it will come, - People like children, crying for the moon; Rulers like nurses, mothering them with promise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.